John McDaris
Geoscience Content DeveloperScience Education Resource Center - Carleton College
507-222-5749, jmcdaris@carleton.edu
I started at SERC in September, 2003, and began by working on a couple of projects, including writing a module on instructional web design and enlarging our example collection of Investigative Case Based Learning activities.
Now, I stay busy generating geoscience content for a number of our websites as well as supervising our student workers and general site maintenance. I am also the webmaster for the National Association of Geoscience Teachers website which we host here at SERC. I continue to work with faculty editors on a number of our projects to help move materials from inspiration to completion. Sometimes this entails actual content development and other times it involves being in contact with faculty to keep everything progressing. As always, I am a jack-of-all-trades, pulling together bits of content development, site design, digital catalog maintenance, office management, and supervision.
I've also been developing some expertise in the area of Geohazards. Beginning in 2004 and 2005 with the Indian Ocean Tsunami and the record-breaking 2005 Hurricane Season, I've been keeping abreast of the various geohazards that people are trying to teach. In collaboration with TERC, I have also been able to develop part of an Earth science lab course curriculum for high school student as a part ofthe EarthLabs project.
Outside of work, I devote a lot of time to renovating the early 1900s era home I share with my partner, gardening, running and softball, and I'm a (supra-amateur/sub-professional) singer involved in a number of ensembles in the Twin Cities.
Education
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN - Geophysics, M.S., 2000
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC - Physics, B.S. cum laude, 1997
Publications
Curriculum Vitae (Acrobat (PDF) 18kB Oct16 08)
